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Alan Greenspan : the oracle behind the curtain / by E. Ray Canterbery.

Title: Alan Greenspan : the oracle behind the curtain / by E. Ray Canterbery.
Author: Canterbery, E. Ray.
Publication: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2006.

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Description

xiii, 193 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Includes information on Ben S. Bernanke, Arthur Burns, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Federal Reserve, Martin S. Feldstein, Goldilocks economy, Greenspan standard, John Maynard Keynes, Lawrence Lindsey, long term capital management, Robert Rubin, Adam Smith, Social Security system, Wall Street, etc.

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Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-180) and index.

Processing Action (note)

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Contents

Greenspan and the myth of his purity -- Adam Smith, free markets and the Greenspan standard -- When markets have failed, Greenspan has been on the scene -- The independence of Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve System -- Fedspeak and the innocent hypocrisy of independence -- White House dependence and the hypocrisy of personal interference -- Greenspanmail redefines the new democrats -- Fed and White House dependence on Wall Street investment bankers -- The fable of the Goldilocks economy -- The wolf at the door of ordinary workers -- Global market failures -- The collapse of the great American stock market bubble -- Derivatives: throwing in the chips -- Fed dependence on Hedge funds? -- Greenspan takes us from Goldilocks to the soft patch and back again -- The housing bubble conumdrum -- Social security: on the cutting edge of Federal budget deficits -- Getting personal with savings, at home and abroad -- King Alan II -- Prospects for reform.

ISBN

9812566066 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005044725

OCLC

61821869

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library